It's not compliant at all, but we'll have to wait for these practices to actually get punished (severely, one can only hope) before people will actually get it through their skulls that it's important to respect your users.
Regarding the JS, I have come to the same conclusion. On a large amount of news websites, I have everything blocked (CSS too) with some element hiding rules to remove the strange menus and whatnot. The content you care about on such a site is the text, with maybe one picture. Almost nothing is lost by refusing everything else.
Regarding the JS, I have come to the same conclusion. On a large amount of news websites, I have everything blocked (CSS too) with some element hiding rules to remove the strange menus and whatnot. The content you care about on such a site is the text, with maybe one picture. Almost nothing is lost by refusing everything else.